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   Jarel Jones wrote:   
   > James Nevermann II wrote:   
      
   >>     Phonetically, the siblings' family name is Ozu.  (I'm assuming    
   >> that is somehow connected with "The Wizard of Oz" & such.)   
      
   That's the obvious link, isn't it?   
      
   >> But, on    
   >> paper, is it really Ozu, or just Oz?   
   >    
   > Ozu is the Japanese pronunciation because of, you know, their total    
   > difficulty of ending words without a vowel sound.  The actual kanji for    
   > their last name is directly translated "Oz".   
      
   Ozu is a perfectly ordinary Japanese name. For example, the famed film   
   director    
   Yasujiro Ozu. If you want to really nitpick, the kanji for their last name    
   could even be romanized "Odu", since the furigana is written with a "tsu".   
      
   The Wizard of Oz in Japanese is "OZU no mahoutsukai", with the "Oz" written in    
   katakana. If you search for the kanji instead (小津の魔法使い), you   
   just get a    
   lot of hits for Majiranger. But the kanji is clearly a play on the book/movie,    
   which is just as well-known in Japan as in the West.   
      
   >>     In some cultures, the family name is given last (like in    
   >> English-speaking countries), and sometimes the family name is given    
   >> first. How would I type out the first & last name of each Ozu    
   >> sibling?  For example, would I type "Kai Ozu", or "Ozu Kai"?   
      
   If there's a reason for it, I'd use the Japanese order. I don't like to lose    
   the pun in a name like singer Ando Natsu, or the mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo.    
   But if not, the family name last is fine, that's what the newspapers do.   
      
   --Rick   
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